bikerskier
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A friend in a small town in S. Oregon asked me to help sell his '04 GSX1300R Hayabusa since there is little or no market in his area. Why he owns this bike is another story. We trailered it back to Portland last Sunday and it now cleaned up and running well. My first question is what is fair price for the toy? 10600 miles, needs new rear tire fairly soon, great condition.
Since it is prudent of me to know the bike a bit, I took it for a spin yesterday, about 10 miles in the country west of town. OMIGOD, I was scared to death about half the time. I have ridden a bit and though it might handle similar to my VFR, but with twice the power. Wrong, very wrong. I found the seating position very uncomfortable, an odd twitch required for the upshift and the power to be enormous! Also an unusual feel to short slower corners, it felt like it wanted to straighten up and did not like to easily lean over to do the right thing. Probably my insecurity and fear on it.
It wanted to get into triple digits far too easily and quickly. Very smooth and very quick throttle repsonse. Fortunately it also has pretty good brakes. I cannot imagine opening this bastard up and letting it run. It scares me to think of it. I will happily stick to my 05 feejer and open it up when I need some adrenalin.
Does anyone have any experience riding the Hayabusa, or does anyone feel the need to have this scary bike in their driveway? Seller is motivated.
:bigeyes:
Since it is prudent of me to know the bike a bit, I took it for a spin yesterday, about 10 miles in the country west of town. OMIGOD, I was scared to death about half the time. I have ridden a bit and though it might handle similar to my VFR, but with twice the power. Wrong, very wrong. I found the seating position very uncomfortable, an odd twitch required for the upshift and the power to be enormous! Also an unusual feel to short slower corners, it felt like it wanted to straighten up and did not like to easily lean over to do the right thing. Probably my insecurity and fear on it.
It wanted to get into triple digits far too easily and quickly. Very smooth and very quick throttle repsonse. Fortunately it also has pretty good brakes. I cannot imagine opening this bastard up and letting it run. It scares me to think of it. I will happily stick to my 05 feejer and open it up when I need some adrenalin.
Does anyone have any experience riding the Hayabusa, or does anyone feel the need to have this scary bike in their driveway? Seller is motivated.
:bigeyes: